Doctoral advisor Brian R. Jewell Name Colin Nichols | ||
Institutions Washington University in St. LouisBaylor College of MedicineUniversity of Maryland, College Park Thesis The effects of changes of length and load on contractility in mammalian myocardium (1985) Doctoral students Rose BaghdadyCatherine CukrasRevell Phillips Other notable students (postdocs)Anatoli N. LopatinShow-Ling Shyng Institution Washington University in St. Louis, Baylor College of Medicine, University of Maryland, College Park | ||
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Colin G. Nichols FRS is the Carl Cori Endowed Professor, and Director of the Center for Investigation of Membrane Excitability Diseases at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Education
Nichols was educated at the University of Leeds where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry and Physiology in 1982, followed by a PhD in 1985 for research on cardiac muscle in mammals supervised by Brian R. Jewell.
Career
Following is PhD, Nichols completed postdoctoral research at the University of Maryland, College Park in the laboratory of W. Jonathan Lederer. He was appointed Assistant Professor at Washington University School of Medicine in 1991 and Full Professor in 2000.
Research
Nichol's research investigates the biology of ion channels, particularly potassium channels, and their role in diabetes mellitus, cardiac dysrhythmias and epilepsy. Nichols uses models to investigate the structure, function and regulation of ion channels, which control what cells do by controlling their electrical polarity.
Awards and honours
Nichols was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014. His nomination reads: